IRUNE VILLALUENGA ARRANZ

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1 IRUNE VILLALUENGA ARRANZ Berkeley Lab., Berkeley, CA EDUCATION Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) Thesis title: Synthesis and characterization of TiO2 nanoparticles and nanostructured coatings with photocatalytic properties. Thesis advisor: Dr. Yolanda R. De Miguel and Prof. Juan Manuel Gutiérrez-Zorrilla. Financial support: FP7 European project SAPHIR M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry at University of the Basque Country (Spain) Advisors: Dr. Yolanda R. De Miguel and Prof. Juan Manuel Gutiérrez-Zorrilla D.A.S. in Organic Chemistry at University of the Basque Country (Spain) Advisors: Prof. Esther Lete and Prof. Nuria Sotomayor PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Project Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) 01/2017 present Synthesis and characterization of hybrid electrolytes for lithium metal polymer batteries Advisor: Prof. Nitash P. Balsara (UC Berkeley, LBNL) Synthesis, physico-chemical and electrochemical characterization of block copolymer electrolytes, inorganic electrolytes and hybrid electrolytes for lithium-metal and lithium-sulfur batteries Battery test cycling Postdoctoral Fellow Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) 01/ /2016 Synthesis and characterization of hybrid electrolytes for lithium metal polymer batteries Advisor: Prof. Nitash P. Balsara (UC Berkeley, LBNL) Synthesis, physico-chemical and electrochemical characterization of block copolymer electrolytes, inorganic electrolytes and hybrid electrolytes for lithium-metal and lithium-sulfur batteries Synthesis and physico-chemical characterization of new cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries Battery test cycling Postdoctoral Fellow CIC Energigune/ UPV/EHU (Spain) 04/ /2012 Synthesis of new polymer/nano hybrids electrolytes for sodium ion batteries Advisors: Prof. Michel Armand and Prof. Teofilo Rojo Synthesis, physico-chemical and electrochemical characterization of hybrid electrolytes for sodium batteries 1

2 Graduate Student Researcher Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain) 10/ /2010 Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and coatings with photocatalytic properties Advisors: Dr. Yolanda R. De Miguel and Prof. Juan Manuel Gutiérrez-Zorrilla Synthesis and physico-chemical characterization of TiO2 nanoparticles and hybrid coatings Photocatalytic measurements (NOx test, methylene blue test, and acetaldehyde test) Project manager Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain) 07/ /2009 Develop of NACO prototype project to study the scale-up possibilities of photocatalytic hybrid coatings. Visiting Researcher Institute for Environmental Management Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Japan) 05/ /2009 Synthesis of N and Fe co-doped TiO2 nanoparticles with photocatalytic activity under UV/Vis irradiation by sol-gel method Advisor: Dr. Nobuaki Negishi Visiting Researcher Stockholm University (Sweden) 11/ /2006 Synthesis of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles coated with dopamine Advisor: Prof. Lennart Bergström Graduate Researcher Analysis of Molecules and Materials, General X-ray Services, UPV/EHU (Spain) 09/2006 Characterization of inorganic compounds by XRD technique Advisor: Dr. Jon Paul Chapman Undergraduate Researcher Organic Chemistry, UPV/EHU (Spain) 02/ /2006 Synthesis of pyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinolines through mesityllithium Advisors: Prof. Esther Lete and Prof. Nuria Sotomayor ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Participation in JCESR project (Balsara Group) 2014-present. Participation in From technology to business world course imparted by Ramon Sagarra, Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), 05/2010. Participation in the Business Plan for the creation of Nacoalia S. L. startup, Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), 03/ /2009. Member of the organizing committee of Challenges and promises of multi-scale modelling schemes for cementitious materials workshop, Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain), 03/

3 TEACHING Instructor of undergraduate and graduate students, LBNL (USA) 01/2013-Present Instructor of undergraduate and graduate students, UPV/EHU (Spain) 01/ /2010 Master s Thesis Co-Direction- UPV/EHU (Spain) 06/ /2012 Hybrid electrolytes based on nanomaterials for sodium batteries (Graduate student: Monica Encinas Guerra) SKILLS Synthesis of block copolymers (nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization, NMP), organic salts, nanoparticles and inorganic compounds (sol-gel method and mechanochemical synthesis). Battery (Na-polymer and Li-polymer) and cell assembly, electrodes and electrolyte formulation and processing, glovebox operation and maintenance, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, galvanostatic/potentiostatic techniques, X-ray scattering (SAXS), scanning electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, UV-Vis spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, BET, dynamic light scattering, NOx test, methylene blue test, and acetaldehyde test. Microsoft Windows and Office, Igor Pro, EndNote, Scifinder, Web of Knowledge (WOK), Chemdraw, X`Pert High Score, WIN-NMR, Mestrenova, and Adobe Photoshop. AWARDS, HONORS My work Compliant Glass-Polymer Hybrid Single-Ion-Conducting Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries in the news (Materials Today and LBNL news center) External examiner on PhD candidates from University of the Basque Country Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) Best Paper Prize, 2015 Peer-reviewer in journals like Journal of the Electrochemical Society and Scientific Reports Presider in Advanced Materials Synthesis and Assembly Toward Technology Challenges session, 248 th ACS meeting, 08/2014. PhD fellowship of the Iñaki Goenaga Foundation, Torres Quevedo Fellowship, Graduate Collaboration Fellowship of the University of the Basque Country,

4 PATENTS I. Villaluenga, D.H.C. Wong, J.M. DeSimone, N.P. Balsara, Hybrid single-ion-conducting electrolytes for alkali batteries Patent No.: 62/254,486, The patent was licensed by a startup. M. Armand, I. Villaluenga, T. Rojo, Hybrid electrolytes Patent No. EP , Y.R. de Miguel, I. Villaluenga, G. Berriozabal, J. Tenas. Hybrid photocatalytic coatings, method for applying said coatings to different subtrates and uses of the substrates thus coated Patent Pub. No. WO/2012/069672, Y.R. de Miguel, I. Villaluenga, A. Porro. Method for obtaining photocatalytic coatings on metal substrates Patent Pub. No. WO/2010/122182, PUBLICATIONS T. Pascal, I. Villaluenga, K. Wujcik, D. Devaux, X. Jiang, D. R. Wang, N.P. Balsara, D. Prendergast Liquid Sulfur Impregnation of Microporous Carbon Accelerated by Nanoscale Interfacial Effects Nano Letters, accepted. I. Villaluenga, S. Inceoglu, X. Jiang, X. C. Chen, M. Chintapalli, D. R. Wang, D. Devaux, N. P. Balsara Nanostructured Single-Ion-Conducting Hybrid Electrolytes based on Salty Nanoparticles and Block Copolymers, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, H. J. Oh, J. Park, S. Inceoglu, I. Villaluenga, J. L. Thelen, X. Jiang, J. E. McGrath, D. R. Paul Formation of disulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) thin film desalination membranes plasticized with poly(ethylene glycol) by solvent-free melt extrusion, Polymer, 2017, 109, 106. D. Devaux, Y.H. Chang, I. Villaluenga, X. C. Chen, M. Chintapalli, J.M. DeSimone, N.P. Balsara, Conductivity of carbonate- and perfluoropolyether-based electrolytes in porous separators, Journal of Power Sources, 2016, 323, 158. I. Villaluenga, K.H. Wujcik, W. Tong, D. Devaux, D.H.C. Wong, J.M. DeSimone, N.P. Balsara, Compliant Glass-Polymer Hybrid Single-Ion-Conducting Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, 113, 52. 4

5 I. Villaluenga, X.C. Chen, D. Devaux, D.T. Hallinan, N.P. Balsara, "Nanoparticle-driven Assembly of Highly Conducting Hybrid Block Copolymer Electrolytes", Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 358. I. Villaluenga, X. Bogle, S. Greenbaum, I. Gil de Muro, T. Rojo, M. Armand "Cation only conduction in new polymer SiO2 nanohybrids: Na + electrolytes" J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, B. Faure, G. Salazar-Alvarez, A. Ahniyaz, I. Villaluenga, G. Berriozabal, Y. De Miguel, L. Bergström Dispersion and surface functionalization of oxide nanoparticles for transparent photocatalytic and UV protecting coatings and sunscreens Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2013, 14, V. Palomares, P. Serras, I. Villaluenga, K.B. Hueso, J. Carretero-González, T. Rojo Na-ion batteries, recent advances and present challenges to become low cost energy storage systems Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, (Top ten in February 2012). F.-L. Toma, L.M. Berger, D. Jacquet, D. Wicky, I. Villaluenga, Y.R. de Miguel, J.S. Lindeløv Comparative study on the photocatalytic behaviour of titanium oxide thermal sprayed coatings from powders and suspensions Surface & Coatings Technology, 2009, 203, S. Lage, I. Villaluenga, N. Sotomayor, E. Lete. Synthesis of Pyrrolo[1,2-b]isoquinolines through Mesityllithium-Mediated Intramolecular Carbolithiation Synlett, 2008, 20, PRESENTATIONS 228th ECS Meeting (Electrochemical Society). San Diego (USA), May 2016 Oral: Single-Ion-Conducting Glass-Polymer Hybrid Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries 227th ECS Meeting (Electrochemical Society). Chicago (USA), May 2015 Oral: Self-assembly of nanoparticle and block polymer electrolytes 248th ACS Meeting (American Chemical Society). San Francisco (USA), August 2014 Oral: Nanoparticle-driven assembly of co-continuous block copolymer electrolytes ISPE XIII (International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes). Selfoss (Iceland), August

6 Oral: Na + -only Conduction in New Polymer/SiO2 Nano Hybrids 4th Nanospain Workshop. Sevilla (Spain), March 2007 Poster: Photocatalytic coatings Trends in Nanotechnology San Sebastian (Spain), September 2007 Poster: Self-cleaning coatings 6